Proximal colonic motility.

Effect of traditional acupuncture on proximal colonic motility in conscious dogs.

Acupoints on the Large Intestine Meridian and specific acupoints related with large intestine have been empirically used to treat large intestinal disease. However, the relationship between acupoints related with large intestine and their functions has not been investigated fully. We investigated whether large intestine-related acupoints affect colonic motility in conscious dogs implanted with ...

Bowel Motility and Colonic Cancer

hilarity and movement (presumably including eye movement) during the compression phase due to the combined effects of warmth and nitrogen narcosis, thus assisting the flow of nitrogen-laden tears between the lens and cornea, while during decompression the chamber was, as is usual, rather cold and foggy, with the subjects relatively immobile, thus minimizing any flow of tears which might have he...

Colonic motility: practice or research?

5-Hydroxytryptamine4 receptor agonists and colonic motility.

5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) released from enterochromaffin cells regulates gastrointestinal function in either an excitatory or inhibitory manner. 5-HT(3) and 5-HT(4) receptors in the gut have been the focus of clinical studies on the management of gastrointestinal motility disorders. 5-HT stimulates intestinal propulsive reflexes through 5-HT(4) receptors. 5-HT(4) receptor agonists can stimulat...

Alteration of antral and proximal colonic motility induced by chronic psychological stress involves central urocortin 3 and vasopressin in rats.

Because of the difficulties in developing suitable animal models, the pathogenesis of stress-induced functional gastrointestinal disorders is not well known. Here we applied the communication box technique to induce psychological stress in rats and then examined their gastrointestinal motility. We measured upper and lower gastrointestinal motility induced by acute and chronic psychological stre...